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Need a soundtrack to set the mood for reading strange holiday fiction? Here’s the playlist I listened to while writing “How to Kill Santa” for the anthology, Weird Winter Stories: A Sparrow & Crowe Yuletide Anthology.

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I’m a Halloween boy, born and bred in the pumpkin patch, but I’ve
always loved the Winter holidays. The mix is not so incongruous…or
rather the incongruity works. Winter/Yule/Christmas and all the rest
have had an affair with Weird Tales for a long time-from Charles Dickens
to The Nightmare Before Christmas. It was not so long ago that ( Read more... )